Wide-ranging strategic review by new chief executive Tom Toumazis aims to slash costs by €70mMecom is to introduce digital pay models across its top newspaper titles, slash costs by €70m and potentially close or sell 65 free titles, following a...
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There is still cash to be made from journalism when the presses stop rollingAdvertising still dominates the newspaper revenue model. Depending upon the particular country, it is not uncommon to see print dailies getting 70% to 80% of their revenue...
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TORONTO - The head of Postmedia Network believes the newspaper chain's competitors will soon follow it towards an online pay-per-view model as the industry searches for new digital revenues to offset tumbling advertising sales. "We were a b ...
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The two newspapers are working hard at converting readers to the digital paid-for modelEvery newspaper, magazine or website is working on a paywall of sorts and closely monitoring what everyone else is doing. In almost every news company, execs are...
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The 400,000 images no doubt constitute the world's most glamorous picture library  but subscription comes at a priceIn 1988, when the printers received the image for the November issue of American Vogue  the first under a new editor  they...
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It's been 18 months since News Corp erected paywalls around The Sunday Times and The Times. Mike Fletcher assesses whether the paywall model is the future for online publishing and talks exclusively with News International to discover a shift in...
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Paywalls are going up at scores of US newspapers. The largest publisher, Gannett, has announced plans to charge online users from early next year.The Chicago Sun-Times and its 39 affiliated suburban titles - owned by a group of investors - will...
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One of America's largest newspaper publisher, MediaNews Group, has come up with an intriguing cost-saving plan.Three of its daily titles will stop publishing in print on Mondays later this month and take down paywalls on that day to enable readers...
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Economist's chief executive explains how a mistake transformed his website and why he is relaxed about losing print salesAndrew Rashbass, the chief executive of the Economist group, starts by putting it down to good fortune. That's not the financial...
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Canada's largest newspaper publisher, Postmedia Network, is to to put up paywalls at all its 38 daily and community newspapers across the country.It suggests that its "metered model" experiment, which began in May at the websites of the Montreal...
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MinnPost Starting Nov. 1, the Star Tribune will begin charging its heaviest users for Web access if they dont subscribe beyond the Sunday paper. The change prompted David Brauer, MinnPosts media reporter, to ask if other news outlets will try ...
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A year and a half since the Apple iPad was introduced, a new study shows that reading news has become a big part of what people use tablets for. But publishers still have a way to go to get people to pay for content on tablets. The newest look at...
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NYT has 324,000 readers paying for online content following strong summer, while its publisher posts healthy Q3 profitThe New York Times has added more than 40,000 new digital subscribers since June, with 324,000 readers in total now paying for...
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Every publisher is eagerly awaiting updates from those pioneering newspapers that have put their websites behind paywalls. A panel at the World Editors Forum on Saturday shares lessons learned and how their competitors have reacted - or not reacted...
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While the number of newspapers and other media entities that are erecting paywalls or launching subscription-based apps continues to grow, other content publishers such as The New Yorker are looking at different ways of monetizing their existing...
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Romenesko+ Memos The Suns paywall goes up October 10. To encourage readers to sign up at launch, we will offer a special introductory rate of 99 cents for the first 4 weeks, says publisher Tim Ryans memo. After that, digital-only Read...
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